offshore wind farm News
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NIB finances the Anholt offshore wind farm
The Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) and Danish energy company DONG Energy have signed a loan totalling EUR 240 million (DKK 1.8 billion) for financing the Anholt offshore wind farm. The loan has a maturity of 10 years and will partly finance the construction of what will become one of the world's largest offshore wind farms. The wind farm will be located offshore in the Kattegat between Jutland and ...
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E.ON takes 50% stake in world’s largest offshore wind farm
E.ON have joined with Danish utility DONG Energy to buy out Shell’s stake in the London Array offshore wind farm. E.ON and DONG Energy will become 50:50 partners in the project. London Array is the world’s largest offshore wind farm project with an estimated total power up to 1,000 megawatt (MW). It is located around 15km from the Kent and Essex coasts in the outer Thames Estuary, and may ...
By E.ON AG
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Ballast Nedam: HLV Svanen Deployed at London Array
Ballast Nedam has signed an agreement with London Array Limited for the deployment of the heavy lift vessel (HLV) Svanen at The London Array Offshore Wind Farm from the second half of August this year. Svanen will perform its services in addition to the installation vessels currently installing foundations for Phase One of the project. Some components will be shipped by Ballast Nedam from ...
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Ballast Nedam Signs Large Contract for Butendiek Offshore Wind Farm
Ballast Nedam has signed a contract around 250 million Euro with wpd for the engineering, supply and installation of 80 foundations at the Butendiek offshore wind farm in Germany. The Butendiek offshore wind farm is located in the German Bight, 32 kilometers west of the German island Sylt. It is expected that financial close of the project is achieved ultimately by the end of this year. The ...
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Siemens Gamesa to supply 1,386 MW to Ørsted at the world’s largest offshore wind farm, in the UK
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) has been awarded exclusivity by Danish energy group Ørsted for the supply and service of wind turbines for the Hornsea Project Two offshore wind project, being developed in British waters, where it will install its SG 8.0-167 DD turbines with total capacity of 1,386 MW. This offshore wind farm, which will be the world's biggest offshore wind farm when ...
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E.ON welcomes award of south coast round 3 offshore wind farm zone
E.ON has today welcomed the news that it has been awarded the exclusive right to develop a large-scale offshore wind farm off the Sussex coastline by The Crown Estate. The company which already has three offshore wind farms in UK waters and is a partner in the London Array, has been awarded Zone 6, located around 20 km off the South Coast, in The Crown Estate’s Round 3 offshore wind initiative. ...
By E.ON AG
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Searoc Strengthens Its Support To Offshore Renewable Energy Developments Through New Dundee Office
International marine engineering company SeaRoc has announced the opening of a further office in Scotland to support’s the country’s growing offshore wind farm and marine renewables industries. Located in Dundee, the new office opened on November 12th and houses a number of marine engineering experts, including David Wotherspoon who joins SeaRoc as Development ...
By SeaRoc Group
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RWE Innogy and Scottish and Southern Energy join forces on offshore wind farm project
npower renewables, the UK fully owned subsidiary of RWE Innogy, has acquired 50% of the equity in Greater Gabbard Offshore Winds Limited (GGOWL) from Scottish and Southern Energy plc (SSE). The development of Greater Gabbard, excluding the connection to the electricity grid, is expected to require investment of around £1.3 billion. Prof. Dr. Fritz Vahrenholt, Chief Executive Officer of RWE ...
By RWE AG
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Doosan Heavy Signs Long Term Service Agreement for Jeju Hallim Offshore Wind Farm
KRW 180 billion contract to provide O&M service for 20 years on 18 wind turbines that are to be built by 2024 Application of locally manufactured offshore wind turbines expected to enable swift response to clients’ demands, including O&M needs Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction announced on March 3rd that it had signed a long term service agreement with Korea Midland ...
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Siemens and E.ON to build EUR 275m major Danish offshore wind farm
E.ON has placed an order with Siemens Energy for the supply of 90 wind turbines for the Rødsand II offshore wind farm south of the Danish island of Lolland in the Baltic Sea. With an installed capacity of 207 megawatts (MW) the new project will be one the largest offshore wind farms in the world. The 90 turbines with a rotor diameter of 93 meters and a capacity of 2.3 MW each will be installed in ...
By E.ON AG
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RWE Innogy participates in cost-cutting initiative for offshore wind farms
RWE Innogy is participating in the British 'Offshore Wind Accelerator' (OWA) initiative launched today by the British Carbon Trust. The Carbon Trust is an independent company founded by the British government in 2001 and aims to avoid CO2 emissions, conserve energy and develop ecologically desirable technology. To this end, Carbon Trust cooperates with companies and government agencies. Under ...
By RWE AG
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Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Export Cables to be monitored by Omnisens – UK
Omnisens has been awarded a contract by Nexans Cables for the supply of a permanent monitoring system for the export power cable network of the Beatrice Offshore Windfarm in the Outer Moray . This continues a long established collaboration where Omnisens fibre optic based temperature monitoring systems are being used to monitor the health of critical Power Supply cable networks for the ...
By Omnisens SA
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E.ON reaches milestone in the largest Baltic Sea wind farm
E.ON Climate & Renewables has reached a further milestone in the expansion of offshore wind power in the Baltic Sea. Rödsand lies between the German island of Fehmarn and the Danish island of Lolland. Half of the foundations and the first cables to carry the electricity from the ninety wind turbines to the transformer station have already been successfully laid and the cable work continues. All ...
By E.ON AG
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First US sale of offshore wind power signed
The first offshore wind farm to be developed in the United States has already sold one-third of the power that will be generated during its first 25 years of operation before a turbine is even placed in the water. Delmarva Power agreed Monday to buy up to 200 megawatts of power from an offshore wind farm to be developed by Babcock & Brown's subsidiary, Bluewater Wind Delaware. The ...
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Osbit to deliver Sapura Energy pile gripper system for Yunlin offshore wind farm project
Osbit, the offshore equipment supplier, has been awarded a contract to design and build an offshore wind turbine pile gripper system, by leading Malaysian-based global energy services provider Sapura Energy. The pile gripper will initially be used to support the development of WPD’s Yunlin offshore wind farm, the first large offshore wind farm to be constructed in the rapidly ...
By Osbit Ltd.
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Half of the turbines operational at the world’s second largest offshore wind farm
More than half of the 160 turbines at RWE Innogy UK’s flagship offshore wind farm, Gwynt y Môr, off the North Wales coast, have been commissioned and are generating electricity. The milestone was reached last week with the 81st turbine connected to the National Grid. Construction of the world’s second largest offshore wind farm will be completed later this year with final ...
By RWE AG
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Carbon Trust hosts first UK demonstration of innovative access vessel for offshore wind industry
Today the Carbon Trust hosted the first UK demonstration of an innovative new vessel designed to reach offshore wind farms more cheaply and easily. The Wave Craft, developed by Norwegian shipbuilder Umoe Mandal with support from the Carbon Trust's Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA), was put through its paces at Seawork International 2015 in Southampton. Umoe Mandal's Wave Craft was a finalist in ...
By Carbon Trust
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Osbit Gripper installs first pile for Sapura Energy on Yunlin Offshore Wind Farm
A pile gripper system, designed and built by offshore equipment supplier Osbit Ltd for leading Malaysian energy service provider Sapura Energy Bhd, is now being used to install monopiles WPD’s Yunlin offshore wind farm in Taiwan. The monopile gripper, which has been installed on the Sapura 3500 vessel, is supporting the construction of Yunlin offshore wind farm, which is the first ...
By Osbit Ltd.
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SgurrEnergy secures Race Bank construction and operations monitoring contract
SgurrEnergy, part of Wood Group’s clean energy business, has been awarded the construction monitoring contract of one of the UK’s largest offshore wind farms, which will be followed by a 15-year operations monitoring phase. Located almost 17 miles off the Norfolk coast, Race Bank Wind Farm’s offshore array will comprise of 91 state-of-the-art Siemens 6.3MW wind turbines and is ...
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What drives general acceptance of offshore wind farms?
General acceptance of offshore wind farms is most positively influenced by reductions in fossil fuel imports and contributions to global warming mitigation, and most negatively by concerns about increases in electricity price and impacts on scenic views, US research suggests. Other factors, such as reductions in air pollution, were not closely related to general acceptance even though on average ...
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